HREQ 2010- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 134 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 2010
• Professor: Paul Brienza

Document Summary

Biological machines: we dedicate most of our time towards living in a very mechanical way. In saying that human beings have human rights, we are saying something about what is essential and important about human beings. The cambridge dictionary of philosophy: human nature is a quality or group of qualities, belonging to all and only humans, that explains the kind of being we are. This entity, which we refer to as humans, has essences, as all natural kinds have essences. Feral children: children abandoned and lost in the woods: ex. Oksana (russian feral child who was raised by dogs) Their understanding of certain things differs from that of the normal child. They are physically human, have all the attributes of a human, but they do not possess all the other traits that humans have. Their understanding of other humans is affected by their upbringing (raised by animals) Though there are genetic similarities, there are major differences.